Key EU rules: how the working directives affect medical staff

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Must be provided by employers when a worker’s daily or weekly rest
requirements cannot be met. The rest provided should make up for the rest
missed and should be taken immediately after the end of the working period.

The problem

A doctor working an evening shift is due to finish at 9pm. She is just
finishing her handover to the night doctor when one of the patients has a
cardiac arrest. She stays an extra 45 minutes to help out and to talk to the
patient’s distressed family, and then goes home. She is due to